human rights

Eleven former police officers handed 50-year prison sentences

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CAMARGO, MEXICO – Eleven former police officers in Mexico have been handed 50-year prison sentences each for their role in the 2021 killings of 17 migrants and two Mexican citizens, according to official reports released on Tuesday. The officers, previously part of an elite police unit in the northern state of Tamaulipas, bordering Texas, were convicted earlier this year on charges of homicide and authority abuse. An additional officer, convicted solely of authority abuse, received …

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Woman executed for drug trafficking

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Singapore witnessed the execution of a woman for the first time in 19 years on Friday, marking the second death by hanging this week for individuals convicted of drug trafficking. Saridewi Djamani, aged 45, was condemned to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams of pure heroin, a quantity the Central Narcotics Bureau stated could fuel the addiction of about 370 users for a week. Despite the clamor from activists to abolish capital punishment …

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